Rooney Mara to topline “A House in the Sky” memoir adaptationJune 26, 2014 - 17:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Rooney Mara is going on a harrowing adventure. Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures has optioned the memoir “A House in the Sky,” written by Amanda Linhout and Sara Corbett, for the “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” actress to star in and co-produce, TheWrap said. The book, released in 2013, “is the dramatic and redemptive memoir of Amanda Lindhout, whose deep passion for exploration of the world's most remote and perilous places took an unexpected turn when she was abducted in 2008 in Mogadishu, Somalia by a rebel terrorist group.” The book is described as “an astoundingly intimate and harrowing account of Lindhout's fifteen months in captivity, [which] illuminates the psychology, motivations, and desperate extremism of her captors all the while as she is kept in chains, nearly starved and subjected to unthinkable abuse.” Mara recently featured in Spike Jonze‘s “Her” and David Lowery's “Ain't Them Bodies Saints,” and will star as Tiger Lily in Warner Bros. live action “Pan.” Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |